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This is the third in a series of three posts featuring my photographs from Death Valley National Park taken over the 2023-2024 winter season (first part here, second part here).
Death Valley is known for many things: the salt flats and polygons at Badwater Basin, the various sand dunes scattered across the park, and the impressive and colorful badlands. Perhaps less appreciated are the mountains, alluvial fans, and canyons spread across the park—and the rocks that comprise them.
Read MoreSarah and I spent most of February in Death Valley in our Airstream until eventually the busy weekend crowds drove us away. Despite Death Valley’s increasing popularity it is still possible to avoid the crowds if you explore lesser known areas of the park, including the numerous canyons which have been the focus of our last few trips to Death Valley, and feature prominently in this collection.
This is only a small selection of my photos from our last trip, please see my recent work Death Valley gallery for the complete fifty photograph collection.
“Curves” - Shadow and light and blowing sand mingle.
“Proud Pygmy” - A Pygmy Cedar against a glowing canyon wall.
“Sand Waves” - Sand patterns that are revealed for a few moments when the sun is low in the horizon.
“Spray Paint” - Natural graffiti adorns this rock in the Panamint Mountains.
“Ghosts” - Drifts of sand blowing in the howling wind
“Beamed” - A sunbeam briefly lights up an alluvial fan.
“Winding Canyon” - Reflected light in a remote canyon.
“Sand Storm” - Dust and sand from high winds revealed this layers of the Panamint Mountains.
“Tortured” - A gnarled and twisted remote canyon wall more resembling driftwood than rock.
“Rock Candy” - A potpourri of colors and shapes
